Articles tagged by Barclays

Former Barclays FX trader Chris Ashton is
to appear at a hearing at the East London employment tribunal on July 13
against the bank, which he is suing for unfair dismissal, confirms his lawyer
Sara George.
Ashton is suing Barclays for ...

Three former Barclays traders have been
found guilty by a London court of conspiring to manipulate the London Interbank
Offered Rate (Libor) benchmark interest rate.
According to a statement from the UK
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Monday, trader Jay Merchant, ...

Citi is on the wrong end of a third unfair
dismissal trail according to sources familiar with the matter who say that Rob
Hoodless has won his claim against the bank.
In an email statement, Hoodless says, “The East London ...

Preliminary
hearings of former Barclays FX trader Chris Ashton’s unfair dismissal and
whistleblowing claim against the bank started on Tuesday at the East London employment
tribunal.
Judges at
the tribunal said they will decide by Wednesday whether to take ...

Chris
Ashton’s claim of whistleblowing against Barclays, where he was formerly head
of spot FX voice trading, is “absurd”, according to Justin Bull, the bank’s former
global chief operating officer.
Bull - who co-chaired Ashton’s disciplinary
hearing ...

Sources tell Profit
& Loss that four veterans of Barclays’ FX division have been made
redundant by the bank as part of wider cuts across the business. Vincent
O'Sullivan, Marek Robertson, Marcello Cavalcanti and Martin Richards have all
left the bank ...

The second quarter of 2016 saw mixed performances amongst some of the major banks, against a background of increasing uncertainty and challenging trading conditions in currency markets.
Goldman Sachs posted a 20% year-on-year increase in net revenues in what it calls Fixed ...

﻿Former Barclays’ CEO Antony Jenkins has joined non-bank FX
and international payment services provider Currencies Direct as non-executive
chairman.
He is going to focus on advancing Currencies Direct’s digital
offering and expanding its international footprint, the company says.
“Currencies ...

New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman has announced a $100 million, 44-state settlement
with Barclays Bank and Barclays for “fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct” involving
the manipulation of USD Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and other
benchmark interest rates.
During the period ...

A third FX trader fired by Barclays is suing the bank for unfair dismissal, adding to the growing number of similar cases being brought against banks.
Mark Clark, who worked on the bank’s FX trading desk since joining in 2010 from Citi is having his claim heard at the East London Employment Tribunal on September 27 according to court records.
The same tribunal has already heard claims from former Barclays’ traders Jack Murray and Chris Ashton, although a decision has yet to be announced in either.

News that Chris Ashton, the former Barclays FX trader dismissed by the bank over misconduct allegations, has lost his claim for unfair dismissal represents the first outright win for a bank facing such a claim and, potentially, draws a line in the sand over how participation in foreign exchange chat room activities is viewed.
Bloomberg News reports that Ashton lost his claim in a ruling dated September 19 as the judge found Barclays took “appropriate action” due to his “gross misconduct”.

Participants in a class action lawsuit that alleges Barclays abused last look on its proprietary trading platform BARX have until March 30 2017 to opt out of the proposed $50 million settlement.
According to a release by law firm Scott+Scott, US District Judge Lorna Schofield will hear the details of last February’s settlement between the class – led by Axiom Investment Advisors – and Barclays on July 18 2017 at a Fairness Hearing.
This hearing will consider whether to approve the proposed settlement, the proposed plan of distribution, and class counsel's application to the court for an award of attorneys' fees, expenses, and a service award to class plaintiff.